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A Black Army: Segregation and the Us Military at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1941-1945

A Black Army: Segregation and the Us Military at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1941-1945

Peretz, Pauline

Hardcover

Series: Military, War, and Society in Modern American History

20th Century United States HistoryWorld War II

Publisher Price: $39.99

ISBN10: 1009521497
ISBN13: 9781009521499
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 17 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.32 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
From 1941 to 1945, 30,000 African-American infantrymen were stationed at Fort Huachuca near the Mexican border. It was the only 'black post' in the country. Separated from white troops and civilian communities, these infantrymen were forced to accept the rules and discipline that the US Army, convinced of their racial inferiority, wanted to impose on them. Mistrustful of black soldiers, the Army feared mutiny and organized a harsh segregation that included strict confinement, control of the infantrymen during training and leisure, and the physical separation of white and black officers to diffuse any suggestion that equality of rank translated into social equality. In this book, available for the first time in English, Pauline Peretz uncovers America's tortuous relationship with its black soldiers against the backdrop of a war fought in the name of democracy.

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